Are you sure this is the link you were looking for? It literally has a header saying "There is no proof that the death penalty deters criminals."
Capital punishment literally has irreversible consequences, which means we need laws to be upheld.
This is no less true without capital punishment. We shouldn't and don't stop worrying about wrongful convictions for other punishments.
That is the ultimate problem we need to go chase, not capital punishment.
One of the two is actually possible to solve immediately and basically for free. If you get rid of the death penalty then there is nothing taken away from any other effort to improve the justice system and ongoing miscarriages of justice become less severe. Do you think that everyone gave up worrying about miscarriages of justice in the over 100 countries that don't have the death penalty?
There are also other points against the death penalty even if you assume it is being used only in a justice system that makes literally no mistakes. How do you know who can and can't be rehabilitated? Who carries out the executions, and what are the effects on them? Do you actually want the state to hold the power of death over its own citizens?
Maybe re-read my initial comment stating that I do not believe what Saudi is doing is correct either. A differing opinion =/= implicit agreement with a regime. Wtf?
I read it just fine. You said you're not defending the Saudi royal family. That doesn't mean that you're not rejecting criticism of the system. And if you are trying to say that, it is really odd to have started the comment by dimissing the whole article with "And?"
So that’s it? Society stops trying? What sort of asinine view is that? Fear of failure should not impede progress. This also applies to laws, regulations, legal frameworks etc.
No? How the hell did you get to that? Society should recognise that it cannot do these things perfectly and act with that in mind, like by not using something so permanent as execution as a punishment.
If we aren’t subsidizing prisons, we can afford it.
"We can afford it" is a much weaker position than "it will save money over the alternative", because it permits execution being more expensive. If execution if more expensive - and in the US, it is - then you can put more money towards rehab by not doing it.
Says you. Go ask the parents of the kids that died in Uvalde massacre on what they want done with the murderer.
I'm literally asking you for data to support your point. I'm not sure how the parents of the kids at Uvalde would have a particular opinion on what they want done with the murderer considering that he was shot dead at the scene though.
Accountability of our own laws, enforcement and the justice system… it’s thing you know.
Are you suggesting that it isn't a thing in countries that don't have the death penalty? I don't understand the point you're trying to make here.